Bob

I see more people have been offered this one:) Is it in your hands now? The mintmark is intriguing.

I will send you a private message when I am home and not posting via my mobile phone. Let us take this conversation offline for our mutual interest.

Hi un (or odi?) Yes I am lucky to have this in my collection - a beautiful piece. It came to me through an intermediary - cannot divulge more.

Excellent! And thank you for sharing.

A good reason for another trip to Albania:)

Great link!

Slava - one could also argue that a down economy is precisely the environment where people would be "forced" to sell. If there are no sellers, then it may be an indication pointing towards most of the groups being in the hands of affluent people who are less affected by the recession, don't "need" to sell, and won't sell unless they get a great price for it.

Maybe it's because those people bought their sets at inflated prices? And there's less and less ones left in the hands of family members who may look to sell to collectors?

There is a thread for this medal already, suggest to merge

http://gmic.co.uk/index.php/topic/54996-order-of-glory-iii-class-to-a-mongolian/

Link to another section with a Soviet Order of Glory awarded to a Mongolian.

I continue to be amazed and impressed at the detailed knowledge here! Thanks

Excellent - and good fortune to find this Tsend!

Too bad it doesn't give a bit more detail on where this combat action took place. Still, a great and rare find!

Interesting! thx

I have the impression Wikipedia is incomplete.

In particular curious about Soviet (if any?) awards...

Excellent - thanks Tsend!

Herge used a french chateux as inspiration for Marlinspike Hall, but Marlinspike Hall is located (in the comic itself) not far from where Tintin lives, which is in Belgium.

http://www.chateau-cheverny.fr/

Before Haddock acquired Marlinspike Hall he was also living in Belgium.

I have a Herge authorized limited edition notary document describing the grounds of Marlinspike Hall in great detail and it is in Belgium. I would say there are more indications that Haddock is Belgian than French.

Älso: "The original English language translators of the Tintin books caused some confusion by giving the address of Marlinspike Hall as "Marlinshire, England" in The Secret of the Unicorn. However details such as traffic travelling on the right hand side of the road and the appearance of the Marlinspike police (who wear the black and red uniforms of the Belgian Gendarmerie) confirm that Hergé's intention was to locate the Hall in his native Belgium."

I don't see any reason the assume he'd be wearing a French uniform.

Don't forget that Herge, Tintin and Haddock were Belgian rather than French...

double post

There was an exhibit at a Brussels museum decades ago where items depicted in Tintin comics were put next to the "real" thing. Herge took inspiration from many items in the ethnographic museum in Brussels. Along with that exhibit a book was also published (sort of like a catalogue - showing strips of Tintin comics, photographs of the actual items and text with background). I have that book in Dutch and it was also published in French. I am not home so do not have access to it, otherwise i could confirm whether perhaps there was detail on the background of Haddock in it incl his hat.

http://www.zwiggelaarauctions.nl/index.php?p=a&select=10,102,4857

The book can easily found for sale online as well.

Finally, a 1957 document with a ton of entries from 1957 all the way to 1972. Some kind of labor document?

And that's all for now. May post some more docs later. Will also have to get the complete set out and do some matching of badges with documents and overall cataloguing.

If anybody has access to SB 516, 1186 or 1507... please let me know! Still have home to get the group more complete slowly but surely over time. Sofar, with use of multiple sources, there's been some good success but a long way to go.

http://gmic.co.uk/uploads/monthly_05_2012/post-679-0-82295700-1336087930.jpghttp://gmic.co.uk/uploads/monthly_05_2012/post-679-0-00539500-1336087933.jpg

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Fifth, an interesting case… same document, but one crossed out and a new one issued (exact same date)but with fewer signatures.

Fourth, a red cross document with picture from 1984.

http://gmic.co.uk/uploads/monthly_05_2012/post-679-0-09342300-1336087564.jpghttp://gmic.co.uk/uploads/monthly_05_2012/post-679-0-07119700-1336087566.jpgThird, one I have not seen before, a light blue “parliament” document from 1966?

Oops, a multi post

http://gmic.co.uk/uploads/monthly_05_2012/post-679-0-58829000-1336087204.jpghttp://gmic.co.uk/uploads/monthly_05_2012/post-679-0-01151100-1336087213.jpg

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Second, a 1984 one with a plastic cover added to it – so probably important enough that it needed to be kept safe against wear and tear? On the reverse is a note included in Mongolian – maybe give some more clues?

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Second, a 1984 one with a plastic cover added to it – so probably important enough that it needed to be kept safe against wear and tear? On the reverse is a note included in Mongolian – maybe give some more clues?